The Sox were doomed by their hot July performance in 2009, 2010, and 2011. Had KW dismantled the team at the deadline in any of those years, we would be in a better place today.

That doesn't even come close to telling the entire story of how the team got where they are now, but it's absolutely something worth mentioning. Every season, we'd go on a hot streak against the NL, and people would start to hope that we'd turned things around. Shortly afterward, the team would fall back to Earth.